Hi! Tech Privacy Policy

Our Site is intended for businesses and their personnel, prospective employees, job applicants, vendors, and other adult visitors, and is not directed to children. Our Site is not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old, we will delete that information.

"Personal data" is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, or the company or organization you represent. The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

• Contact and business information you submit through our contact form, our hiring form, or other communications with us, including your name, business or personal email address, telephone number, company or organization name, job title, and the contents of the message or inquiry you send us.

• Job-applicant information, if you apply for a position with us, including your resume, cover letter, employment and education history, portfolio or work samples, and other application materials you choose to submit through our hiring form or otherwise.

• Device and technical information, including your IP address, browser type and settings, operating system, and other device information collected automatically when you visit the Site.

We do not seek to collect sensitive personal data through the Site, and you should not submit it. As noted in our Website Terms of Use, our contact and hiring forms and general email are not secure channels. Please do not submit passwords, access credentials, encryption keys, authentication codes, one-time passcodes, detailed information about security vulnerabilities or system configurations, protected health information, payment-card data, or other highly sensitive information through a public Site form or by unsecured email. If anything sensitive needs to be shared, we will tell you a secure way to send it.

We also collect:

• Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Site feature.

• Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Site, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Site (including date and time), pages that you view, page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from a page.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you provide it to us through the Site, such as when you complete and submit our contact form or hiring form, apply for a position with us, request that we get in touch, or otherwise communicate with us by email, phone, or chat in connection with the Site.

Automatically Through Our Site

As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies, including details of your interactions with our Site, such as traffic data and logs and which pages and features of the Site you access and use.

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to operate, maintain, and improve our Site.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Site. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Site.

• Web Beacons. Some parts of the Site may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those parts and compile other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling under applicable law, depending on where you live you may opt out of such uses by contacting us as described in the Contact Information section below. Please note that some Site features may be unavailable as a result.

When you interact with the Site, third parties may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may include:

• Analytics providers.

• Your device manufacturer.

• Your internet or mobile service provider.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about how a third party collects or uses information, you should contact that provider directly.

From Service Providers

We may also receive information about you from service providers and technology providers that we engage to operate and support the Site and to respond to your inquiries, such as hosting, email, analytics, and communications providers (for example, Apple, Mosyle, and Dialpad), and we may combine that information with information we collect directly from you.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site and its content and features.
• Respond to and follow up on your inquiry, request, or communication.
• Evaluate a potential business relationship with you or your organization.
• Evaluate your application if you are applying for a job with us.
• Keep appropriate business records.
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights, including under our Website Terms of Use and any other agreements between you and us.
• Comply with applicable law and respond to lawful requests from government or regulatory authorities.
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information, or any other purpose with your consent.

We will use the information you submit through the contact or hiring form to respond to and follow up on your inquiry or application. We will not treat your inquiry as consent to receive promotional calls or text messages. Any marketing communications would require your separate, appropriate consent, and you may withdraw that consent at any time as described in the Your Rights and Choices About Your Information section.

We do not collect, use, or sell personal data for the purpose of training machine-learning or artificial-intelligence models, including large language models.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and technology providers we use to operate and support the Site and our business (such as hosting, email, analytics, and communications providers, including Apple, Mosyle, and Dialpad), who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, restructuring, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Hi! Tech NYC LLC's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by Hi! Tech is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information, or with your consent.

We may also disclose your personal data:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use and other agreements between you and us.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hi! Tech, our clients, our personnel, or others.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising. The categories of personal data we may disclose include:

• Contact and business information.
• Job-applicant information.
• Device and technical information.

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Cookies and other tracking technologies:

• Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Site features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Site may not respond to all browser DNT signals; instead, you can use the cookie controls described in this policy.
• Marketing Communications. We do not treat your inquiry as consent to receive marketing communications. If you have separately consented to receive marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in the communication or by contacting us as described in the Contact Information section below.

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including:

• Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your personal data and access a copy of the personal data we process. To the extent feasible and required by state law, depending on your state, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information and it will be included in the response to your access request.
• Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal data that we maintain, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose.
• Deletion. You may request that we delete personal data about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
• Opt Out of Using Personal Data for Sales, Targeted Advertising, and Profiling for Certain Legal or Similarly Significant Decisions. You may request that we do not use your personal data for these purposes. Some states may also grant you the ability to learn more about or challenge those automated decisions.

Important: The exact scope of these rights varies by state, and there are exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in the Contact Information section below. We will respond as required by applicable law. If we decline your request, you may appeal that decision by replying to our response or contacting us again using those same details. Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control ("GPC") that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data "sales" as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law. Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt out of certain personal data sales. Because we do not sell personal data, this opt-out is not currently applicable, but Nevada residents may contact us as described below with any questions. If you are a California resident, you may also have rights under California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, to the extent it applies to us. To exercise any such rights, please contact us as described in the Contact Information section below.

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Site. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Site may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Site, operating our business, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and the nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the Site. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Site periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.

This policy, and any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to it or to our handling of personal data through the Site, are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, consistent with our Website Terms of Use. Nothing in this policy deprives you of the protection of any mandatory statutory right that applicable law does not allow to be waived.

To exercise your rights, or to ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

Hi! Tech NYC LLC

262 West 38th Street, Suite 701
New York, New York 10018

Email: info@outside-legal.com

Phone: (917) 512-6443